Motivational Quotes

Freedom

Only very slowly and late have men come to realize that unless freedom is universal it is only extended privilege.

- Hill, Christopher

Best Quotes about Freedom

Liberty is slow fruit. It is never cheap; it is made difficult because freedom is the accomplishment and perfectness of man.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Liberty, according to my metaphysics is a self-determining power in an intellectual agent. It implies thought and choice and power.

Adams, John

There's something contagious about demanding freedom.

Morgan, Robin

We are living in the excesses of freedom. Just take a look at 42nd Street an Broadway.

Durant, William J.

To know what you prefer instead of humbly saying Amen to what the world tells you you ought to prefer, is to have kept your soul alive.

Robert Louis Stevenson

If we don't believe in freedom of expression for people we despise, we don't believe in it at all.

Chomsky, Noam

We must be willing to pay a price for freedom.

Mencken, H. L.

I gave my life for freedom --this I know: For those who bade me fight had told me so.

Ewer, W. N.

Freedom consists not in refusing to recognize anything above us, but in respecting something which is above us; for by respecting it, we raise ourselves to it, and, by our very acknowledgment, prove that we bear within ourselves what is higher, and are worthy to be on a level with it

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Every general increase of freedom is accompanied by some degeneracy, attributable to the same causes as the freedom.

Cooley, Charles Horton

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History does not long entrust the care of freedom to the weak or the timid.

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

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We hold in our hands, the most precious gift of all: Freedom. The freedom to express our art. Our love. The freedom to be who we want to be. We are not going to give that freedom away and no one shall take it from us!

Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider

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Freedom begins as we become conscious of it.

Howard, Vernon

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Men are free when they are in a living homeland, not when they are straying and breaking away. Men are free when they are obeying some deep, inward voice of religious belief. Obeying from within. Men are free when they belong to a living, organic, believing community, active in fulfilling some unfulfilled, perhaps unrealized purpose. Not when they are escaping to some wild west. The most unfree souls go west, and shout of freedom. Men are freest when they are most unconscious of freedom. The shout is a rattling of chains, always was.

Lawrence, D. H.

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It is quite possible for someone to choose incorrectly or to judge badly; but freedom must allow such mistakes.

Sang Kyu Shin

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The freedom of the press works in such a way that there is not much freedom from it.

Kelly, Grace (Patricia)

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I know but one freedom and that is the freedom of the mind.

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

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Freedom is what you do with what's been done to you.

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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Only necessity understood, and bondage to the highest is identical with true freedom.

James, William

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The very aim and end of our institutions is just this: that we may thing what we like and say what we think.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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We who officially value freedom of speech above life itself seem to have nothing to talk about but the weather.

Ehrenreich, Barbara

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The true character of liberty is independence, maintained by force.

Voltaire

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The law will never make men free, it is men that have to make the law free.

Thoreau, Henry David

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Self-reliance is the only road to true freedom, and being one's own person is its ultimate reward.

Patricia Sampson

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You can only be free if I am free.

Darrow, Clarence

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Freedom is knowing who you really are.

Thomson, Linda

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Liberty will not descend to a people; a people must raise themselves to liberty; it is a blessing that must be earned before it can be enjoyed.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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Liberty is one of the most precious gifts which heaven has bestowed on man; with it we cannot compare the treasures which the earth contains or the sea conceals; for liberty, as for honor, we can and ought to risk our lives; and, on for the other hand, captivity is the greatest evil that can befall man.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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Freedom is a condition of mind, and the best way to secure it is to breed it.

Hubbard, Elbert

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If the freedom of speech is taken away then dumb and silent we may be led, like sheep to the slaughter.

Washington, George

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The primacy of the word, basis of the human psyche, that has in our age been used for mind-bending persuasion and brain-washing pulp, disgraced by Gobbles and debased by advertising copy, remains a force for freedom that flies out between all bars.

Gordimer, Nadine

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Freedom is the only law which genius knows.

Lowell, James Russell

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Governing sense, mind and intellect, intent on liberation, free from desire, fear and anger, the sage is forever free.

Bhagavad Gita

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The time is near at hand which must determine whether Americans are to be free men or slaves.

Washington, George

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Until economic freedom is attained for everybody, there can be no real freedom for anybody.

La Follette, Suzanne

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He is free... who knows how to keep in his own hands the power to decide.

Madriaga, Salvador De

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We have confused the free with the free and easy.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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The secret of freedom, courage.

Thucydides

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Mankind has a free will; but it is free to milk cows and to build houses, nothing more.

Luther, Martin

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Man is born free, yet he is everywhere in chains.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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I believe in a religion that believes in freedom. Any time I have to accept a religion that won't let me fight a battle for my people, I say to hell with that religion.

Malcolm X

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It is our belief that if people are set free to express themselves to the fullest, their accomplishments will be far beyond their dreams, and they will not only contribute to the growth of the company, but will also be more useful citizens and contribute to the society at large.

Blount, Wilton M.

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Freedom is the last, best hope of earth.

Lincoln, Abraham

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Freedom is the emancipation from the arbitrary rule of other men.

Adler, Mortimer J.

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Freedom exists only with power.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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Bondage is... subjection to external influences and internal negative thoughts and attitudes.